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Flight Safety Information
Flight Safety Information
March 5, 2013 - No. 049
In This Issue
Plane Crash in Congo's East City of Goma Kills 7
Two killed as plane crashes into residential area in French Alps: Young girl found
alive in wreckage
Lear jet makes emergency landing
Fraudulent tests uncovered, but air safety not impacted
Pilot reports spotting 'drone' over Brooklyn
Small plane with 3 aboard overdue on Alaska flight
Woman tossed off plane for smuggling dog in bag
IHST: Helicopter Accidents Lower, But Private Incidents Rise
PROS IOSA Audit Experts
Delta expects 40,000 bpd jet fuel output from refinery
Korean Air Bids for Czech Airlines Stake
David Downey Appointed as President Aerosafe North America
EAAP - HF Training
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Plane Crash in Congo's East City of Goma Kills 7
GOMA, Congo March 4, 2013 (AP) - A plane crash in the center of the eastern city of
Goma killed seven people and injured three, Congolese officials said Tuesday.
The Ukrainian pilot of the plane for CAA managed to avoid buildings in the densely
populated area, and crashed the plane on the fences in the backyard of a housing plot.
The plane had taken off from the city of Kananga in the country's southwest, stopped in
Lodja and was on its way to Goma before the crash, Goma's mayor said.
"There was a thunderstorm and we heard a loud noise. We went out and saw a plane in
the backyard. I hadn't realized a plane had crashed, I was under the impression that it
was loud thunder," said Lauren Welsh, a resident of the nearby house.
As night fell, the rescue team arrived on site and started tearing apart the plane to
extract the bodies of six people. The body of one crew member is still missing, said an
authority with the airplane company, Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation, or CAA. The
authority spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not have permission to speak
to the press.
The CAA official and rescue authorities confirmed that 10 people were on board. Rescue
officials found six dead bodies, including the pilot. An official with the company said five
crew were among the dead, one crew member was missing and one passenger was
killed. Three Congolese men survived the crash and were taken to the hospital, he said.
Goma mayor Naasson Kubuya confirmed that seven were dead. The mayor had earlier
said 40 people were on board and only four people survived based on initial police
estimations.
"The pilot managed to avoid houses," said Kubuya. "It's a horrifying accident. The city of
Goma has become a field of disasters. We sympathize with the families of the deceased."
The plane crashed due to bad weather conditions, he said.
Given the number of crashes in eastern Congo every year, the mayor of Goma called on
national authorities to increase measures to improve air traffic and safety.
Last year, a plane crash in the city of Bukavu killed President Joseph Kabila's personal
adviser, Augustin Katumba, and four others.
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Status:
Preliminary
Date:
04 MAR 2013
Time:
17:55
Type:
Fokker 50
Operator:
Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation - CAA
Registration:
9Q-CBD
C/n / msn:
20270
First flight:
1992-12-09 (20 years 3 months)
Engines:
2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PW125B
Crew:
Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Passengers:
Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Total:
Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 9
Airplane damage:
Written off
Airplane fate:
Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:
Goma Airport (GOM) (Congo (Democratic Republic))
Phase:
Approach (APR)
Nature:
Cargo
Departure airport:
Lodja Airport (LJA) (LJA/FZVA), Congo (Democratic Republic)
Destination airport:
Goma Airport (GOM) (GOM/FZNA), Congo (Democratic Republic)
Narrative:
A Fokker 50 passenger plane, operated by Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation (CAA) was
destroyed in an accident near Goma Airport (GOM), Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Minister of Transport said there were nine people on board the Fokker 50, three
passengers, five crew members and a loadmaster. The three passengers have survived
the accident, one crew member is still missing.
The airplane reportedly came down in a residential area as it was preparing to land in
poor weather following a domestic flight from Goma Airport (GOM).
www.aviation-safety.net
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Two killed as plane crashes into residential area in French Alps: Young girl
found alive in wreckage
A small passenger jet crashed in a residential area in the French Alps shortly after
takeoff on Monday, killing two people on board and severely injuring a young girl
passenger, a local official said.
Firefighters found the girl in the wreckage, alive but suffering from multiple fractures. No
one was reported injured on the ground.
The aircraft, a twin-engined corporate jet, started having difficultly shortly after taking
off from a small airport in the town of Annemasse in eastern France on the Swiss Border,
about three miles from Geneva, said officials.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
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Status:
Preliminary
Date:
04 MAR 2013
Time:
08:40
Type:
Raytheon 390 Premier 1A
Operator:
Global Jet Luxembourg
Registration:
VP-CAZ
C/n / msn:
RB-202
First flight:
2007
Crew:
Fatalities: / Occupants:
Passengers:
Fatalities: / Occupants:
Total:
Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3
Airplane damage:
Destroyed
Airplane fate:
Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:
ca 1 km SE of Annemasse Airport (France)
Phase:
Initial climb (ICL)
Nature:
Unknown
Departure airport:
Annemasse Airport (QNJ) (QNJ/LFLI), France
Destination airport:
Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA) (GVA/LSGG), Switzerland
Narrative:
A Raytheon 390 Premier 1 was destroyed in an accident near Annemasse Airport (QNJ),
France. There were three people on board. One of them survived the accident.
The Premier 1 apparently contacted a house, immediately after takeoff from runway 12.
It crashed into a field and caught fire.
www.aviation-safety.net
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Lear jet makes emergency landing
CAHOKIA, Ill. (AP) - An inbound Learjet (LJ-45) with eight people aboard has made an
emergency landing after experiencing gear trouble.
Diane Earhart of St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia said Monday afternoon the
aircraft's landing gear was not functioning correctly. She said the pilot circled the airport
and made a safe landing.
Fire trucks, ambulances and emergency crews were waiting on the airport tarmac. The
plane eventually diverted and landed a short distance away in Saint Louis, Mo.
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Fraudulent tests uncovered, but air safety not impacted
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney said yesterday that it
has uncovered fraudulent testing of engine parts involving falsified records, but that no
recalls or other problems resulted.
The subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. said an investigation was begun in June
2011 when an employee anonymously alleged that test data had been altered over 15
years at Carmel Forge, another United Technologies unit, in Israel.
"Carmel Forge produced test records that were not accurate," Pratt & Whitney
spokeswoman Stephanie Duvall said in an email.
The doctored data did not lead to any flight safety risks
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2013/03/05/fraudulent-tests-
uncovered-but-air-safety-not-impacted.html
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Pilot reports spotting 'drone' over Brooklyn
(CNN) -- Was there a drone flying over Brooklyn Monday afternoon?
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a report from a pilot of an Alitalia
passenger jet who says he saw an unmanned aircraft while landing at John F. Kennedy
Airport in New York.
"We saw a drone, a drone aircraft," the pilot can be heard telling controllers on radio
calls captured by the website LiveATC.net.
CNN Explains: U.S. drones
"The FAA is investigating a report... he saw a small, unmanned or remote-controlled
aircraft while on final approach to Runway 31 Right," according a statement sent to CNN
by FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown. "The sighting was approximately four to five miles
west of the airport at an altitude of approximately 1,500 feet," she said.
Domestic drones in U.S. skies
That description puts the aircraft somewhere over Brooklyn and on the other side of the
airport from where the plane was coming in for a landing.
Dronestagram uses social media to highlight drone strikes
The Alitalia aircraft did not have to take any evasive action and landed safely at JFK.
Air traffic controllers warned other planes approaching the runway of the drone report,
but at least two other pilots radioed they did not see it.
A spokesman for the New York Police Department was not aware of the incident and the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport, referred CNN to
the FAA.
Unmanned aerial systems, sometimes called drones, and other remote-controlled planes
could pose a risk to larger passenger aircraft if they collided or were sucked into an
engine.
For recreational hobbyists, flying remote-controlled planes is only allowed by the FAA up
to 400 feet in the air, and within sight of the operator. If they are going to fly within
three miles of an airport, they have to let air traffic controllers know.
Flying unmanned aerial vehicles is illegal for most business purposes; however,
governments and public entities such as police departments can apply for permission to
operate them.
The FAA has been working to setup new rules and to safely integrate the use of
unmanned aircraft into the national air space, and last year opened an "unmanned
aircraft systems integration" office.
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Small plane with 3 aboard overdue on Alaska flight
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Authorities says searchers in Alaska are looking for a small
plane with three people aboard that was reported overdue on a flight from Anchorage to
the small village of Takotna.
Carl Siebe of the Civil Air Patrol tells KTUU-TV (http://is.gd/zOApDi) that the plane left
Anchorage about 10 a.m. Monday and was expected to reach Takotna - a checkpoint on
the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race - at about noon.
Alaska National Guard spokeswoman Kalei Brooks Rupp confirms the plane was a
Cessna 182 with three on board.
The Cessna was traveling with another plane, which reported it missing about 3 p.m.
Monday. The overdue plane did not file a flight plan.
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Woman tossed off plane for smuggling dog in bag
You can't get a normal-size tube of toothpaste through airport security these days, but a
woman flying from Tel Aviv to London managed to smuggle her dog in a carry-on bag
through Ben-Gurion International Airport onto a British Airways flight. Alas, she and her
pooch didn't make it to their destination.
While the plane was on the runway awaiting takeoff, a nearby passenger alerted flight
attendants to a squeak coming from beneath the woman's seat, where a teacup
Yorkshire terrier was discovered in her purse. The woman and her tiny pet were chucked
off the plane. But passengers were left wondering whether the airport's supposedly
tough security is all bark and no bite.
http://now.msn.com/ben-gurion-international-airport-woman-thrown-off-flight-for-
smuggling-dog-in-bag
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IHST: Helicopter Accidents Lower, But Private Incidents Rise
The International Helicopter Safety Team, or IHST has released new figures that show
the total number of civil helicopter accidents in the U.S. continued to trend downward
while private aircraft accidents are up. From 2010 to 2012, there were 411 total
rotorcraft accidents-lower than the three-year period from 2007-2009, which saw 466
total accidents.
Training flights also saw a decrease from 111 accidents from 2007-2009 to 81 from
2010-2012. But the data also revealed that the number of accidents involved in private
helicopter flights went up, from 96 during the three-year period from 2007-2009 to 102
during 2010-2012.
http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/topstories/IHST-Helicopter-Accidents-Lower-But-
Private-Incidents-Rise_78652.html
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Delta expects 40,000 bpd jet fuel output from refinery
(Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL.N) said on Monday it expects to produce 40,000
barrels-per-day (bpd) of jet fuel at its 185,000 bpd Trainer, Pennsylvania, refinery by the
end of the year, a lower rate than Delta's initial goal when it bought the refinery last
year.
Delta President Edward Bastian said in a JPMorgan presentation that the 40,000 bpd
output represented about 25 percent of Delta's domestic jet fuel consumption and about
22 percent of the refinery's current capacity.
The Atlanta-based airline originally said it expected to spend about $100 million to
increase jet fuel production at the refinery to 52,000 bpd, or about 32 percent of
capacity, while reducing gasoline production.
The refinery, owned by Delta subsidiary Monroe Energy, began making jet fuel last
September and by early November was up to about 30,000 bpd, a source familiar with
refinery operations told Reuters at the time.
A spokesman said the company still believes Trainer will get to 52,000 bpd of jet fuel
production in the long term.
"But those initial projections were made in the early days of the startup and since then
we've learned a lot about the operation and have revised our expectations for this year
accordingly," the spokesman said in an emailed statement.
The refinery is expected to be operating at full capacity this week, Bastian said. It had
been operating at 75 capacity for most of the first quarter because of operational issues,
he said. "Yet we still expect to break even on the facility in the (first) quarter."
Delta bought the refinery last year from Phillips 66 (PSX.N) in a bid to gain more control
over fuel costs, saying it expected to save about $300 million from its yearly fuel bill of
$12 billion.
"There's evidence here that we're going to make this work for us. But like anything that's
big and new and different, it's taken us a little bit longer to turn on than we thought,"
Bastian said.
Had the facility been running at full capacity in the first quarter, Bastian said Trainer
would have likely produced a profit of $60 million.
He expects Trainer to turn a profit of $75 million to $100 million during the second
quarter.
Delta is taking steps to make the refinery more profitable. These include shipping low-
cost crude oil by rail from North Dakota's Bakken shale to replace more expensive crude
from the North Sea and Africa.
Other East Coast refiners, such as PBF Energy (PBF.N), have already taken similar steps.
PBF recently began receiving crude oil shipments by rail at its 182,000 bpd Delaware
City, Delaware, refinery.
Delta's Trainer refinery received its first crude-by-rail shipment in February. The airline
expects to begin receiving a regular supply of crude-by-rail from the Bakken region by
mid-2013, according to Bastian's presentation.
Bastian said Delta is "mid-stage" in negotiating Bakken crude supply and transportation
arrangements for Trainer and will make an announcement in the next 60 days on how it
will proceed.
Initial Bakken crude oil volumes at the refinery will be "a bit limited" but "meaningful,"
Bastian said. He declined to provide an exact figure.
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Korean Air Bids for Czech Airlines Stake
SEOUL (WSJ)-Korean Air Lines Co. 003490.SE +0.46%said Tuesday it made a bid of
"several million dollars" for a 44% stake in the unprofitable Czech Airlines, in its first
attempt to invest in another passenger carrier.
South Korea's flag carrier hopes to expand its reach in Central and Eastern Europe at a
time of rising trade with Asian economies, and as the recession among euro zone nations
persist.
A Czech Airlines plane takes flight. Korean Air Lines is seeking to buy a stake in the
carrier.
.
"We submitted a bid for the stake in Czech Airlines last week after doing due diligence,"
a Korean Air spokesman said, adding the carrier doesn't plan to get involved in the
Czech airline's management.
Korean Air has shed its poor safety record of the 1980s and 1990s, investing heavily to
upgrade its long-haul services, focusing on making its premium cabins more competitive
and increasing destinations. The carrier ordered the Airbus A380 superjumbo jet in
recent years, while its rivals cut spending.
The state-run Czech Airlines' routes and airport slots in Central and Eastern Europe
make it an attractive investment option. The airline-one of the world's oldest with a 90-
year history-has been mired in losses due to competition from budget carriers, weaker
demand from the euro-zone crisis and high fuel prices.
Czech Airlines has been undergoing a transformation plan to turn around its lackluster
operations, cutting long-haul flights and selling maintenance and ground services units.
The Czech government earlier said it would consider selling the airline over the coming
months, likely in April or May.
Both Czech Airlines and Korean Air are members of the SkyTeam global airline alliance,
and the companies in December set up a code-share agreement allowing the cross-
selling of seats on each other's flights in Europe and Asia.
As part of the plan, Czech Airlines will also resume long-haul services, with a twice-
weekly flight between Prague and Seoul. Korean Air also operates to the Czech capital
four times a week.
Czech Airlines wasn't im
mediately available for comment. Czech local media have reported that Korean Air was
the sole bidder for the stake. Korean Air declined to provide further details of the
possible sale.
Analysts have also considered Doha-based Qatar Airways as another possible bidder. In
January, the head of the Middle Eastern airline said it would study potential synergies
from a stake acquisition. A Qatar Airways official in Seoul declined to comment on
Tuesday.
Korean Air operates passenger flights to 11 cities in Europe, while Czech Airlines'
destinations include Bucharest, Budapest, Warsaw, Riga and Moscow.
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European Association for Aviation Psychology (EAAP) "Human Factors in Flight Safety: Safety
Management Systems (SMS), Risk Management and Safety Investigation" training courses to be
conducted in Dubai and Barcelona, May 2013.
Registrations are now open for these popular and internationally respected courses, to be held from:
12 - 16 May 2013, in Dubai, kindly hosted by Emirates, and,
21 - 25 May 2013, in Barcelona, kindly hosted by Barcelona-based airline, Vueling.
Full details on the 2013 EAAP courses are included in the Registration Brochures for both the Dubai and
Barcelona courses, which are now available for download from the EAAP website at:
http://www.eaap.net/read/1316/human-factors-in-flight-safety-course.html
The experienced team of Dr Rob Lee, Kristina Pollack and Brent Hayward will
again be conducting the 2013 courses on behalf of EAAP. The first of these courses was
conducted at Ispra, Italy in 1999, and since then the course has been continually updated, and held regularly, in
locations including Luxembourg, Stockholm, Madrid, Lisbon, Interlaken, Dublin and Dubai, with a total of
more than 320 participants from civil and military aviation attending, as well as from other high technology
industries.
The course is recognised by EAAP as contributing towards certification requirements for those wishing to
become an EAAP-certified Aviation Psychologist or Human Factors Specialist.
As detailed in the Registration Brochure, EAAP members are offered reduced registration fees for the course,
and there is also a significant additional "Early Bird" discount for those who register early. Course participant
numbers are limited, so those wishing to attend are encouraged to register as soon as possible to secure a place.
Those with any questions about the course, please email Brent Hayward:
bhayward@dedale.net
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